Textile fabric



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TEXTILE FABRIC. APPLICATION FILED mac. 2. 1919.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

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. um'rso STATES ISRAEL GABON, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA.

TEXTILE FABRIC.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 2, 1919. Serial No. 342,004.

I '0 all whom it may conoem:

Be it known that I, ISRAEL GAnoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Textile Fabrics, of which I do hereby declare the following to be a specification.

My invention relates to textile fabrics and has for its object the provision of improvements in elastic woven or knitted textiles. It has for an incidental object the provision of an elastic yarn. With theseand other objects in view, it consists of the structures, combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l, is a cross-section of one form of the. hereinafter described elastic yarn forming partof my said invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a piece of said yarn. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a mitten embodying said invention, and Fig.

4 is a side elevation of a sock, embodying said invention.

In the drawings, 1 is an elastic core-of rubber thread, of any suitable cross-sectional shape or contour, upon which is spun a sheath or cover 2 of wool or cotton, or of mixed wool and cotton, or other fibrous material, the manner-and method of applying said cover'to the rubber core being substantially similar to the manner and method of applying wool to'cottoncore yarns, which latter means and methods are well known to the art. That is, the rubber core is led through a spinning machine and the carded wool or cotton is spun upon and around it, the resulting yarn being reeled upon spools. The elastic rubber core yarnforming part of my invention may then be woven or knitted into various products, but I find it especially desirable for use in knitted wrists of mittens, or in the upper ends of socks, or stockings; it may also be used advantageously in knitting the neck portions of turtle-neck sweaters, or the wrist portions of various styles of sweaters, or in the wrist and ankle portions of underwear, and may be used in forming that portion of any knitted garment which is desired to fit the figure closely but nevertheless to yield easily during the operation of putting the garment on or taking it ofl, or to any muscular pressure from within. A garment may, if desired, be woven or knitted entirely of said rubbercore yarn, or one distinctive portion thereof may be knitted or woven from said elastic rubber-core yarn and another portion from non-elastic yarn, or said elastic yarn may,

in any desired manner, be used in combina-v tion or association with non-elastic yarn in a single garment or other textile product, as,

for example, the knitting may be done withalternating parallel yarns, one of such yarns being an elastic rubber-core yarn, and the other yarn containing no rubber. In said drawing Fig. 3, shows a, mitten, of which Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

the wrist portion 3 is knitted with said elastic rubber-core yarn from the bottom approximately to the line A-B. The portion 3 of said mittenis preferably knitted of relatively non-elastic yarn, the lower end of which yarn is-tied to the upper end of the rubber-core yarn, or the yarns are overlapped at their adjacent ends so that the end of one yarn is for a short distance knitted into the portion of the garment which is otherwise'madefrom the other yarn. Fig. 4: shows a sock, the upper end 4 of which is preferably knitted with said elastic rubbercore yarn from the upper'end approximately to the line C-D, the lower portion 4" of the sock being preferably knitted with a relatively non-elastic yarn. The portion knitted with said rubber-core yarn is preferably ribbed in the manner well known to the art.

I am awarethat certain yarns in which there is no rubber core have, nevertheless, a minor degree of elasticity, but their elasticity is very limited and ephemeral. I am aware also that certain portions of garments, as for example the upper ends of socks are soknitted as to provide ribs or a formation broadly analogous to corrugations by which a considerable degree of temporary elasticity is imparted to such portion of the garment, but such portion quickly stretches out of shape and loses much of its elasticity, while the similar part if knitted with said rubber-core yarn, or alternate rubber-core and other yarn retains its elasticity for a long ribbed portion of less diameter than the adjacent'po rtion so that it will fit snugly. The two parts were then secured together by stitching, or otherwise, thus requiring three 5 operations. By using my elastic yarn, exclusively or as an alternating yarn, for knitting such Wrist portion, the Wrist portion and the palm portion may be knitted on one machine by a substantialiy continuous operation, thetension'of the elastic "yarn contracting the; wrist portion.

I am also aware of an elastic webbing in which naked elastic threads are run through, or woven into a fabric consisting chiefly of cotton or silk or wool, but the silk, WOOl or cotton is not in such case spun upon a core of rubbei, and there is therefore not a rubber-co're yarn in such webbing. A

lVhat I claim is 1. Ina yarn; the combination of an elastic rubber core and a cover of other material spun upon and around said core. 4

2. In a yarn, the combination of an elastic rubber core and a covering of wool, cotton or other fibrous material spun upon said core. v

*3. As a new article of manufacture, a yarn comprising an elastic rubber core and a cover of other material spun upon said core,

As anew article of manufacture, a yarn comprising an elastic rubber core and a cover of'fibrous material spun upon and around said core. o

In testimony whereof, I hereunto aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

ISRAEL GABON. Witnesses:

JAMES T. WATSON, 5 ARTHUR A. FIBER. 

